Column 1 – Vessels and shanties (count of vessels and shanties, numbered in order visited by the enumerator)
Column 2 – Houses in construction (count of houses in construction, numbered in order visited by the enumerator)
Column 3 – Houses uninhabited (count of uninhabited houses, numbered in order visited by the enumerator)
Column 4 – Houses inhabited (count of inhabited houses, numbered in order visited by the enumerator)
Column 5 – Families (count of the family or household – two or more families occupying the same house were to be numbered separately)
Column 6 – Names, entered with last name first
Column 7 – Sex, m for male and f for female
Column 8 – Age, at last birthday (for those under one year of age, a fraction was used – 4/12 would mean four months old)
Column 9 – Married or widowed
Column 10 -- Relation to head of family (w for wife, d for daughter, s for son, dom for domestic, and L for lodger)
Column 11 – Country or province of birth
Column 12 – French Canadians, number of French Canadians and French Acadians
Column 13 – Place of birth of father
Column 14 – Place of birth of mother
Column 15 – Religion, occasionally abbreviations were used:
Column 16 – Profession, occupation, or trade (multiple could be listed for an individual, those studying a profession were listed as students of that profession, those attending college were listed as students and school children were not listed as such, and for those with no occupation other than household work, a dash was recorded)
Column 17 – Employers
Column 18 – Wage earner
Column 19 – Unemployed during week preceding census
Column 20 – Employer to state average number of hands employed during year
Column 21 – Read
Column 22 – Write
Infirmities – The infirmity needed to have reached the stage of incapacity to be recorded.
Column 23 – Deaf and dumb
Column 24 – Blind
Column 25 – Unsound mind